Rancho Bernardo High School
Coordinates: 32°59′43.10″N 117°03′57.91″W / 32.995306°N 117.0660861°W
| Rancho Bernardo High School | |
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| Location | |
| 13010 Paseo Lucido San Diego, California United States of America |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| School district | Poway Unified School District |
| Principal | Paul Robinson |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2570[1] (2010) |
| Color(s) | Blue, White, Silver |
| Mascot | Broncos |
| Yearbook | Legends |
| Newspaper | The Silver Spur |
| Website | Rancho Bernardo High School |
Rancho Bernardo High School, or RBHS, is a public high school in the Poway Unified School District of San Diego County, California. Rancho Bernardo High School opened in September 1990 as the district's third high school. There are approximately 2,300 students in grades 9 through 12, and approximately 101 faculty members.
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[edit] Academics
The school computes grades on an A-F system. Starting with the 2007-2008 school year, the high school stopped providing rankings on school transcripts.
Typically, 93% of RBHS graduates go on to higher education with 55% enrolled in 4-year colleges and universities. RB High grads have gone on to attend UC universities, Ivy Leagues and schools all over the nation.
[edit] Athletics
Rancho Bernardo is a Division I school competing in the Palomar League against Poway High School, Mount Carmel High School, Westview High School, Torrey Pines High School, and La Costa Canyon High School. The school's sports teams go by the name "The Broncos". Some famous athletes to come from Rancho Bernardo are MLB baseball players Cole Hamels, and Hank Blalock. Rancho Bernardo High School has a reputation for being heavily focused on baseball. According to the book Moneyball, Rancho Bernardo is known in baseball circles as "The Factory" due to the consistent quality of players being produced from its program and later going on to either college, minor, or major leagues. MLB First round draft picks include Jaime Jones(1995), Matt Wheatland(2000), Scott Heard(2000), Cole Hamels(2002), Danny Putnam(2004), Johnny Drennan(2005), and Allan Dykstra(2008). Another athlete to come out of the Rancho Bernardo Athletic program was Cross Country and Track runner, Molly Grabill. Grabill was known to have made the top 10 for Foot Locker Nationals in 2010 and to have qualified for the 2011 IAAF World Coss Country Championships that were held in Punta Umbria Spain.
[edit] Controversies
[edit] Broomstick incident
Belying the reputation of the school's baseball team is a 1997 incident in which three baseball players pleaded guilty to sodomizing a new teammate with a broom handle in the locker room after a game. The school district paid $675,000 to settle the claim—one of the highest payments in high school hazing cases to date. The incident revealed a hazing culture that stretched back at least two years, in which older team members would threaten to rape incoming freshmen players, or would perform simulated rape.[2]
[edit] Underwear incident
In April 2002, Rancho Bernardo received media attention when one of the school's assistant principals forced female students at a school dance to lift their clothing and expose their underwear, in search of G-strings and thongs. The district said the reason for the check was to "ensure appropriate school dress."[3] Rita Wilson, the assistant principal involved in this incident, was later demoted to a teaching position.[4]
[edit] Noose incident
In November 2007, a noose along with written racial slurs were found inside the school's performing arts center.[5] As of December 2007, Poway Unified School District administrators have confirmed that a student has been identified and now the hate crime has been recognized as a misunderstanding and no action has been taken.[6]
[edit] Hacking incident
In April and May 2008, eight students were identified for hacking into the school's website, downloading teacher files, distributing tests to students, and altering transcripts. Assistant Principal Keith Koelzer issued a memo to teachers regarding the moral depravity of the Rancho Bernardo High School students involved. The memo was later released to The San Diego Union-Tribune for printing.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ "Rancho Bernardo High - Reports (CA Dept of Education)". http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/DQReports.asp?CDSType=S&CDSCode=37682963730819. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
- ^ "Sports hazing incidents". ESPN. http://espn.go.com/otl/hazing/list.html.
- ^ Yang, Eleanor (May 1, 2002). "Rancho Bernardo High official suspended over underwear inspection". San Diego Union Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20020501--n75890.html. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ Whitaker, Barbara (June 19, 2002). "Underwear Check Leads To Demotion". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E5DB173FF93AA25755C0A9649C8B63. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro - Noose, racial slurs found at Rancho Bernardo High; school says student disciplined
- ^ Noose, Racial Slurs Investigated at Rancho Bernardo High School - FOX6 San Diego
- ^ Official sees 'depravity' in cheating case
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